Quotes by Martin Parr

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All photography is propaganda.

Photograph

Photography

Propaganda

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse… I’m fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I’ll be in decline myself. It’s a fact of life.

Artist

Decline

Facts

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It’s sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Looks

Propaganda

Trying

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Color

Photography

Snapshots

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Criticism

Hypocrisy

Tourists

Dictators are interesting, no?

Dictator

Interesting

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That’s the great thing about photography.

Photographer

Photography

Remember

Filming is always a challenge because I’m not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I’m not technically brilliant, but it’s the spirit that counts.

Brilliant

Challenges

Spirit

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it’s a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Boring

Facts

Photography

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note…. The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

Moments

Records

Tourists

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Actors

Art

Art Is

Artist

Aspect

Beach

Bigs

Black And White

Book

Boring

Brilliant

Britain

Cameras

Cds

Celebration

Challenges

Children

Collecting

Color

Country

Criticism

Crosses

Danger

Decline

Dictator

Different

Documentaries

Ego

Essentials

Eye

Facts

Fans

Fashion

Firsts

Followers

Form

Formulas

Funeral

Games

Giving

Glamorous

Groups

Guilt

Hard Work

Havens

Hurt

Hypocrisy

Ideas

Industry

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Quotes by Martin Parr

Martin Parr

All photography is propaganda.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse… I’m fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I’ll be in decline myself. It’s a fact of life.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It’s sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That’s the great thing about photography.

Filming is always a challenge because I’m not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I’m not technically brilliant, but it’s the spirit that counts.

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it’s a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note…. The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

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